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Gabrilowitsch on Palestine.

A great artist brought an encouraging
message about Palestine to his Detroit fel-
low-townsmen. Ossip Gabrilowitsch's ad-
dress, delivered last week before an illus-
trious Jewish audience, under the auspices
of Iladassah, was one of the most delight-
ful episodes in the entire drama of Zionism
now being enacted for au anxious Jewry.
Ossip Gabrilowitsch certainly hi not a
Zionist propagandist. And yet his address
was perhaps the best propaganda that
could at this moment be disseminated in the
interests of a rebuilt Jewish National Home
in Palestine. His was a message of an im-
partial observer, yet it concluded with the
same sentiment that a hired propagandist
would close his address: The Jewish set-
tlers are in Palestine to stay and to contrib-
ute Jewish values to the world ; therefore
Jews are obligated to improve and main-
tain the existing settlements.
An honest Jewry dare not come to any
other conclusion. Palestine at her worst
will lend glory to the Jewish people. But
even a mediocre Eretz Israel must have
world Jewry's support, because from the
holy Land radiates renewed faith,—that
faith which Mr. Gabrilowitsch described as
the all-powerful element in the reconstruc-
tion of Palestine.
By adding a cheerful touch to the Pal-
estine horizon, aside from his contributions
to music in Zion, Mr. Gabrilowitsch has
greatly aided the cause of Zionism and has
earned the gratitude of the Jewish people
which is proud to count him among her
illustrious sons.

In Justice to the Immigrant

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By DAVID SCHWARTZ

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Charles d. Joseph

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Some of my best friends are—
rabbis. And at time, it seems to
me. the spirit of the Lord—the
rabbinical spirit—comes even to
me and I would preach a sermon.
many event, the news of the past
week, it seems to me, brought
forth a chain of events which
would afford a splendid basis for
homiletic discourse.
First, there was the opening of
John D. Rockefeller's church with
the image of Einstein carved on
it, as one of the saints. To be
sure, there were two other images
of Jews. There was Moses and
David, and if we may include a
Jew, who later joined another de-
nomination, there was yet another
to our credit.
But these last three might have
been expected. You will find their
images carved on thousands of
churches the world over. The plac-
ing of Einstein among them—the
carving of his image on the facade
of a Baptist church—is to me an
epochal and highly significant
event. To be sure, Dr. Fosdick's
Baptist church is scarcely to be
classed with other churches of that
denomination. Dr. Fosdick is the
Dean Inge of America. He has
reinterpreted the old Christian
dogmas in a way that leaves little
but the old names.
Nevertheless, it is still funda-
mentally a Baptist church—and it
heralds a living Jew as one of its
saints.
A rare evidence of liberalism!

DR. HOLMES' JEWISH CONGRE-
GATION.

The second phenomenon of the
week to which I wish to point
was the statement of Dr. John
Haynes Holmes. Dr. Holmes is the
pastor of the Community Church.
And more than half of the mem-
bers of his church, he announces,
are Jews. It must be remembered
that the church of Holmes is not
as other churches. One doesn't
have to believe in any Trinity,
Immaculate Conception, baptism
or anything else to join it. Origi-
nating, I believe, as a Universalist
church, it is now bereft of even
the little modicum of dogma
characteristic of that denomina-
tion.

It is common practice on the part of hun-
dred-percenters to ascribe crime to foreign-
born elements residing in this country. Since
the war, however, the hatred of the immi-
grant has turned to such bitterness that
everything that is vile and vicious is corn-
monly charged against the foreign-born.
The economic depression helped to increase
this hatred, and crime has, in the minds of
uninformed Americans, become synony-
mous with the immigrant. That is why the
shattering of this superstition by the New
York Times, in an editorial entitled: "Immi- AL JOLSON AND YOM KIPPUR
a little thing happened
grants and Crime," deserves to be broadcast at Thirdly,
one of the theaters in New York
so that people who are misinformed may during the past week. Not in line
stop to think and to learn. We quote the with the first two incidents, it yet
has something in common with
Times editorial in full:
them.
A couple of weeks ago a well
"The Commissioner General of Immigra-
known columnist recalled the fact
tion, in the course of his plea for cutting that
Al Jolson had recently ap-
down the present alien quotas, was unas- peared in a moving picture in
sailable when he declared that if we had which, incidentally, he acted the
part of an observant Jew. The pic-
had selective immigration fifty years ago, ture than showed him absenting
'there would have been no underworld himself from work on Yom Kip-
problem of the magnitude or character that pur. Recalling the picture, this col-
our
peace officers have on their hands now.' umnist wanted to know if Al, in
Yom Kippur and Harvard.
In the same manner that a young man can real life, would absent himself
work on Yom Kippur. Jol-
The controversy that arose at Harvard appreciably reduce the responsibility of from
son, be it remembered, is now
over the necessity for Jewish students to matrimony by postponing marriage till the playing an engagement in New
take their exams on Yom Kippur, because age of sixty, or a small boy could imagin- York City, for which he is getting
the phenomenal salary of $20,000
authorities were not informed in advance ably avoid the discomfort of shaving by a week.
Well, last week came the answer
of the conflict in dates with the holiest day flatly refusing to grow up, we would now
that question. Jolson appeared
on the Jewish reliigous calendar, drew have fewer racketeers and gunmen if the to
at the theater on Yom Kippur, and
from the Boston Herald the following caus- population of the United States were small- coming out of his role said:
"I spent much time debating
tic editorial comment:
er by the 25,000,000 aliens who have enter- with
myself the question last night,
ed
the
country
since
the
year
1880,
and
whether I should appear today
The Yom Kippur controversy at Harvard
(Yon)
Kippur) and I have decided
their offspring. With only three-fourths of it is better
was as unnecessary as the ridiculous scrub-
to come here and help
our
actual
population
there
would
have
make
people happy than roam
woman squabble, and in each instance the re-
around
the
streets as a hypocrite."
been
fewer
criminals
than
we
have
today.
sultant publicity was distinctly harmful to the
—1--
But if Commissioner General Hull's state-
college. Presumably the Harvard officials knew
LUBIN AND PORK
—certainly there is no reason why they should
ment is technically correct, it is neverthe-
The last of these four "stories
have something in common"
not have known—the date of the great Jewish
less in danger of being distorted to suggest which
came from Rome. The announce-
day of abstinence which is celebrated all over
that our crime problem today has its prin- ment from that city that prepara-
the world, and the implication of it. A little
cipal roots in our former policy of unre- tions were being made for the
foresight and the exercise of the elementary
celebration of the twenty-fifth
stricted immigration. The implication is the
anniversary of the founding by
principles of administration and public rela-
strong
that
there
would
have
been
no
un-
David
I.ubin of the International
tions would have prevented the trouble. The
Institute of Agriculture. Lubin
derworld in the cities of the United States was
final arrangement, whereby the students were
one of the prophets of today,
if certain alien types and strains had been as II. G. Wells in his "World of
allowed to take their examinations and the
William Clissold" has pointed out.
sacred college rules were guarded from disinte-
denied admission to the country.
Like Fosdick, like Holmes, his
gration, might easily have been perfected
"This is an utterly indefensible position. mind
was primed on the universal
months ago.
The immigrant arrivals of the last half- —like Jolson even, he has given
up
much
of the dogma in Judaism
The men who planned the nationad conven-
century and their descendants have un- —yet unlike
the last, although he
tion of the American Legion were somewhat
questionably made their contribution to our associated with kings and the elite
more thoughtful and :skillful than University
of the world, he would not eat
(Time
annals.
It
is
not
unlikely
that
the
Hall. They changed the tentative date of the
pork—and observed many of the
newcomers have given a bit more than their other
Jewish tenets and still did
gathering, in order that Jewish legionaires
share.
The
stresses
and
strains
which
ac-
not
regard himself as a hypocrite.
might take a part in the activities without vio-
count for a disproportionately large alien
lating in any way the articles of their ancient
ADAM AND GAGS
faith.
population in the insane asylums will be
A reader forwards to me a wail
that
the
story recently recounted
found operating to some extent in the field
Once again it is pertinent to remark that
in these columns anent Yon) Kip-
Harvard might wisely invest $10,000 or $12,-
of social adjustment. The public has been pur "is so old it has arterio-
000 a year in a public relations department
familiarized with the handicaps under sclerosis."
The reader Ls probably right.
which would make impossible such embarrass.
which immigrant parents labor in bringing Harry
Schneiderman of American
ing situations as those which recently have
up their children in a new enviornment. The Jewish Committee once reminded
made the college look petty and silly.
me
that
is Adam came back to
disruption of family discipline and family
earth, the only thing that he would
There is another angle to this discussion. ties by differences in language and interests be perfectly familiar with would
While it is true that even if Harvard offi- between the first and second generations is be the gags. They never change.
cials did not know that there was a conflict a factor in our crime statistics. But it is a
NOT SO NEW, BROTHER
in the assigned dates for the examinations matter of degree. It is not only immigrant
The same reader, who makes the
with Yom Kippur they could have set an- parents who fail to understand their child- complaint about the Yom Kippur
story, sends me in one of his own
other day for the tests and thereby dis- ren or to be understood by them, though on the same subject.
It concerns a Jew who confessed
played the simplest form of tolerance, we the alien father finds himself harder beset.
the rabbi that he had eaten on
must not forget that the Jewish students Beyond this we cannot go. That the crime to
Yom Kippur.
themselves were in a great measure respon- problem is primarily an immigrant problem
The rabbi very naturally de-
sible. News reports of the Yom Kippur is plainly disproved by our homicide sta- nounced him in bitter language.
"Listen, rabbi," said the Jew.
conflict state that the Jews themselves did tistics. It is true that the murder-rate in our "Must one never eat on Yom Kip-
not know that Yom Kippur occurred on the cities has increased threefold since the year pur?"
"Never!" said the rabbi.
day they picked for the examinations. 1900. and is now nearly eight times the rate
"Well, rabbi, there are some ex-
Therefore before Jews will endorse the for Canadian cities, twenty times the rate ceptions. If a man is ill, it is per-
Boston Herald's suggestion for a public re- for Great Britain. But the cities with the missible for him to eat, is it not?"
"Well, yes," replied the rabbi.
lations department for Harvard it may do highest murder-rate are not those with the "If a man is seriously ill, the fast-
them more good to think of such a depart- highest percentage of immigrant blood. The ing may be waived."
"A-ha," said the Jew, "so the
ment for their own group. Had the young average homicide-rate for Atlanta, Birm- only
trouble' is that you want me
Jews themselves been informed on the con- ingham, Memphis is nearly ten times the to be seriously ill. if I were very
it would suit you, yes? That's
flict in dates, and had they been taught to average for Boston, New York or Philadel- sick,
the kind of a man you are."
guard against it by mere caution and the phia. Even Chicago stands far behind the
The story is not so bad, but
simple use of the Jewish calendar, the con- big towns of the South or Southwest where "Reader" may be interested in
learning that we first saw it about
flict could have been avoided in a most hon- European immigration has been a factor of 15 years ago in the Yiddish Tage-
orable way.
blatt.
small importance."

I AM surprised that such a good writer as Mr. Louis
Minsky should waste his talents on the Shanghai
air. He probably takes Mr. Nebbe Ezra, of China,
seriously. But he will get over that. Mr. Minsky,
who, I believe, lives in Brooklyn, takes a [sideswipe
at me and hits the Jewish press of America. Ile
says that it is difficult for a serious Jewish writer
to get a hearing on serious subjects. I wouldn't
say that, Mr. Minsky. Many journals print serious
articles. However, I an) not unmindful of the high
compliment paid to me in the letter written by Min-
sky to the editor of Israel's ',Messenger. I enjoyed
it hugely. Among other choice bits are these:
Looking at the matter as you do, sir, from
Shanghai, you are not in a position to appre-
ciate the situation of Mr. Joseph's "de jure"
spokesmanship in the name of American Jewry,
If you will remember, the editor of a certain
Yiddish daily in New York recently sent his
assistant to Madrid to confer with the former
dictator on the subject of welcoming the Jews
back to Spain. If one journalist has the right
to speak for American Jews, why not Mr. Jo-
seph? The fact is that we have too many or-
ganizations and individuals on this side who
claim to represent their brother Jews in all
matters. Inasmuch as there is no Jewish Board
of Deputies in America, it is a case of "first
come first served." The quickest one speaking
in the name of American Jewry gets the floor.
It is a continual race between the American
Jewish Congress, the American Jewish Commit-
tee, the Anti-Defamation League, the syna-
gogue bodies, and Mr. Charles II, Joseph. As
Mr. Joseph has no executive committee behind
him and inasmuch as he cannot hold a conven-
tion every year in Atlantic City by himself, it
seems to me that he ought to let the rest of
them take first pot at speaking for American
Israel.

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SHALL select just a few: sentences from a letter
that Rabbi Stephen Wise sent me in defending
his choice of Rabbi henry Cohen of Galveston,
Texas, as one of the 10 men in America whose
spiritual influence is greatest. Ile says ... I feel
that Rabbi Henry Cohen had come to have such a
fine religious or spiritual influence in a large sec-
tion of the country he should be named ... Men
may be distinguished, but fame and inward spiritual
power are, as you know, different things . . I
remember I'resident Wilson saying, years ago,
"Henry Cohen is the foremost citizen of Texas."
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I AM SORRY, Mr. Moss, of Los Angeles, that I
haven's room to publish your letter in its entirety,
but maybe your Zionist brethren may be heartened
by these few extracts . . . "I pity all Jews who
boast of non-belief in Zionism" ... "They miss the
thrill of the most beautiful thing existing in Jew-
ish life" . . . "This movement has no place for
cowards" . . . "It is a wonderful feeling to be a
Zionist." ... "I am what you would call a radical
and militant Zionist."
Yes, Mr. Moss, I suspected that.

ON APRIL, 28, 1911, Archie Butt, then aide to
President Taft, in a letter to his sister Clara
(which is taken from a copyrighted article in the
Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph) writes as follows:
Jacob Schiff is demanding that the president
abrogate the treaty of 1832 with Russia and
threatened him with hostility of the Jews if he
continues to refuse to accede to their demands.
He and a number of Jews came to the White
House a few evenings ago and practically told
the president that unless he abrogated this
treaty or secured some amendment to it by
which Jews could secure passports in that coun-
try, the entire Jewish people of this country
would not only oppose his renomination but
would support the Democratic candidate who-
ever he might be. The president rose to the
occasion, and not only told Schiff and his com-
mittee that he would not abrogate the treaty,
but that he wouldn't even countenance the
attempt to do so; that if he had to purchase the
next election with his honor or by sacrificing
what he believed was the national honor, then
they must look elsewhere for a candidate to
support.

ARCHIE BUTT is dead. President Taft if dead.
But there must be living some one who was with
Jacob Schiff when he called on the president. I
cannot believe that Mr. Schiff would in the name of
the Jews of the United States utter such a veiled
threat as is contained in Butt's letter. To me it is
inconceivable that he would ask the president to
meet his request and if he refused to pledge the
Jews of America to vote the Democratic ticket.
This is too serious a matter and I would very much
like to hear further evidence from some one else
who was there. These letters are appearing in the
nation-wide string of Hearst papers, and if per-
mitted to go uncontradicted this charge against the
Jews is likely to create a wrong impression.
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IN "A History of the Jewish People," by Max
Margolis and Alexander Marx, I find this state-
ment regarding this incident:
The subject (treaty with Russial had occu-
pied the attention of the Department of State
for 40 years, during which time every diplo-
matic expedient was tried to counter the eva-
sive answers of the Czar's government. Presi-
dent Taft was reluctant to go to extremes; at
a luncheon tendered at the White House on
Feb. 15, 1911, to representatives of the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee, the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations and the Independent
Order B'nai B'rith, the president announced
that the government could do nothing. The
Jewish delegation left depressed in spirit.
"We are still in exile." said one of the corn-
pany. Schiff answered: "This means a fight."
Congress, however, was impressed by the argu-
ments showing Russia's discrimination and a
resolution was passed in the House calling for
the abrogation of the treaty, and before the
Senate had taken action, President Taft gave
notice to Russia of the proposed termination of
the treaty ... which went into effect Jan. 1,

1913.

President Taft seems to have changed his mind.

IT'S QUEER the twist that men's minds take
sometimes. Here we have a banker by the name
of Palmer, leaving 10 millions or more to a college
to erect a dormitory for Gentile, Protestant, white
students and instructors. Wealthy so far as
worldly goods were concerned but with a poverty-
stricken soul. I wonder if an institution such as
Cornell, dedicated to cultural as well as educational
advancement, can conscientiously accept such a gift
without compromising with conscience. Of course
it might be contended that a Jew could make a
bequest to a college for a Jewish fraternity build-
ing, but that does not seem to be analagous to leav-
ing money for a dormitory which should propertly
be open to all elements in student life.

on the subject of colleges I cannot help
W HILE
but wonder if something can't be done to soft-

pedal the front page stories that keep Harvard's
Jewish students in the limelight every time there is
a discussion of some kind affecting their interests.
The story sent out regarding the "unfairness" of
the dean in "springing" examinations on Yarn Kip-
pur, I take with a grain of salt. And I have infor-
mation which I consider reliable that destroys the
truth of such an assertion. The examination in
question was planned a year in advance and it so
happened that it fell on Yom Kippur, which was an
awkward situation. But that was no excuse for
making a newspaper sensation out of it. I haven't
the slightest doubt but that if the matter had been
quietly discussed with those in authority by a com-
mittee of representative Jewish students whatever
was accomplished would have been accomplished
without all this newspaper publicity. It seems at
this distance as if some of those Jewish boys at
Harvard need an adviser.

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Why Does the English Official
Dislike Jews?

By EDWARD GERSON

I wonder how many Jews out-
side Palestine realize that much of
the failure of their people to make
more rapid progress in the land of
Israel is due to the attitude of
the English official? Ile is not, as
in other countries, an anti-Semite,
and any glib formula which can
be made to fit the professional
anti-Semite will never fit the Pal-
estine official. Yet he dues not like
Jews. lie often expresses his dis-
like. Ile puts obstacles in the way
of Jewish progress.
All officials?
By no means.
There is a handful which has no
particular likes or dislikes, no
marked prejudices, which goes
ahead with its work, helping Jews
or Arabs indiscriminately, and
never unnecessarily standing in
the way of progress. These are
usually the more thinking, or the
more intellectual type of English-
men, but this type is rare, for the
simple reason that an able man
with capacity would not serve in
I'alestine. It may not have struck
you that in the Colonial service,
Palestine is not one of the plums.
Not by any means. To Jews Pal-
estine is an important country, a
country of dreams, yet even the
big Jews remain outside the coun-
try. How then can one expect big
Englishmen to live in the "Arab
townlet" of Jerusalem or in the
small "village" of Haifa? So the
good men are Jews and you can
count them on the fingers of your
hand.

The rest are second and third
rate, even fifth rate men, who can-
not think for themselves, and are
ready to adopt any attitude which
may sufficiently disguise their in-
adequacy. Quite charming people
some of then), and many play ten-
nis exceedingly well. There are
some not too bail cricketers among
them.

Why do these people dislike
Jews?

The Inevitable Hatred.

You may say that it is only to
be expected that such fifth-rate
people will be anti-Semites, anti-
Jews. But that is not so. Many
of them come to Palestine feeling
quite friendly towards Zionists and
their work. They are for a time
ready to help and then—the in-
evitable happens, and they join the
crowd of supercilious smirking
beer-drinking or whisky-sipping
(to put it mildly) officials who
crowd the government offices of
Jerusalem,
Why?
The Jew has a ready answer.
Many a Jew has told it to me in
all seriousness but, in many cases,
I know it is not a conclusion of his
own, but a ready-made opinion
picked up over tea with a friend
or overheard in the Vienna Cafe.
The Jew says he is independent,
ready to stand up for his right, as
good a man as any other. Ile can-
not be bullied and he will not be
ordered about. The Jew does not
bend the knee easily to the Eng-
lish, who rule in Jerusalem. But
the Colonial service official is used
to dealing with natives, Negroes,
savages. He is used to giving or-
ders. To be obeyed. The Jew
does not obey, he argues. Ile re-
fuses to allow himself to be treat-
ed as a native. If he is a subject
of the Palestine Administration, he
will not be subservient to every
official of that administration. The
Jew is clever, has passed through
the best European university and
has a degree; the English official is
intellectually his inferior—or the
Jew thinks he is, and reacts ac-
cordingly. Think you, the argu-
ment runs, that the British official
likes being answered back when he
expects to be obeyed? Think you
he can tolerate being treated as an
intellectual inferior? The answer
is obviously no. It would make
matters easier if the Jew would
behave like a native. Because the
Jew does not, and because the of-
ficial's work is made more difficult
thereby, the official turns against
the Jew, favors the Arab, and does
his best to put obstacles in the way
of upbuilding the Jewish National

Home,
Views of Jewish Officials.

This, I say, is the popular Jew-
ish argument. There may be some
truth in it, but the balance is all
wrong. To give a truer perspec-
tive, let me give you the views of
a Jewish official who, during the
course of his work, comes into con-
tact with Arabs and Jews as well
as with all the other officials who
govern—misgovern, if you will—
the country. Ile said to me:
"When an Arab has an appoint-
ment with Major X, he throws his
cigarette away before he enters
the room. If he be a Christian he
removes his fez. If he be a Mus-
lim he will see that it is on straight

before he enters. But a Jew will
go in with a piece of cigarette be-
tween his lips, his hat on the back
of his head and when he is insidt
talks as if he were a brother 0
Major X without the slightest signs
of courtesy.... Now, it is not only
a Christian Englishman who re
cents behavior of this kind, but tt
Jewish Englishman, too. We ma}
be stupid to pay attention to mere
conventions, but they have become
a part of the decencies of social
intercou rse."

rnen. I said, "that the
Jew shows independence and re-
fuses to be treated as a native?"
He laughed in my face and
said, ''have you adopted that weak
defense mechanism, too? That's
all nonsense. An English gentle-
man expects the sort of treatment
that the Arab gives him from an-
other Englishman—why should he
not expect it from a Jew?"
He is right. The Jew often fails
to grasp the niceties of courtesy
and it is these little annoyances
which accumulate and when there
are enough of them the official who
may have been friendly becomes
unfriendly. And do not forget
that these discourtesies do not
have to be paid many times to the
same official. The English official
community is a small one, and the
members of it are continually
meeting one another and there is
consequently a pooling of Jewish
discourtesies.
Small
incidents
grow by constant retelling. And
what a Jew (lid or (lid not its be-
comes a matter of amused con-
versa t ion.

Disliked Because Not Understood.

But that is nut the full story.
We have extremely clever Jews
who are extremely stupid. They
know everything but they are like
donkeys laden with sacks of books.
All that they know conies from
books. Practical experience, nil.
They do not know how to use their
learning and when they meet with
officials, the flitter are just flabber-
gsatd. They do not know what to
E n hi a not df a type of person the like
make
of which they have never met in

That b rings me one step nearer
to the solution of the problem,
"Why does the British official dis-
like the Jew and oppose his
work?" The Jews of Palestine are
either Eastern Jews or Eastern
European Jews. And the official is
bewildered. This is not the Jew
he knew in England? What is he?
Because he does not understand
him, he dislikes him. Ile is a little
afraid of him. (His contempt is
merely a mask). Because he dis-
likes the Jew, he thinks he under-
stands how the Arab politician dis-
likes the Jew. So he comes to
sympathize with the so-called Arab
national movement.
The fatal
step is taken. You cannot support
the Arab national movement with
opposing the Jewish national move-
ment. Zionism must be opposed at
every step. And why not? Your
chances of promotion depend on
the Colonia 'office. The Colonial
office has been, it is said, consist.
ently working against the man-
date ever since its inception. Too
eager support of Zionism will not
gain your promotion. Not too
obvious opposition will be duly re-
corded. It is all so natural.
One more point. The English
official set is a small affair. It is a
closed corporation. The number
of senior government officials who
are Jews is insignificant. There-
fore the Jews who meet, outside
business hours, with the English
officials do not number a minyam
—and one of these high Jewish of-
ficials goes about saying that every
Jew is a liar. How should a man
respect one who cannot respect
himself?
The analysis might he carried
farther, but I imagine I have car-
ried it far enough to show just
why it is that the Jew makes slow
progress in Palestine and finds
himself warned at every step. In
short, the English government of-
ficial is a third-rate man with a
fifth-rate mind. The Jew seldom
respects the susceptibilities of
those brought up differently from
himself. The Jew is independent,
the official prefers subservience.
The clever Jew (there are plenty
of him here) is often inordinately
stupid and irritating. The Jews in
this country are very different
from the Jews in England and the
official, unable to make him out,
takes a dislike to him and opposes
his work. Opposition to Zionism
gives chance of preferment. The
official does not meet the Jew out-
side business hours and does not
come in contact with him socially.
And in the future?
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THE BOOK CASE

Comments on Jewish Authors and their Books.

By FRIEDA R. BIENSTOCK

Simultaneously with the one
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
the first constitutional establish-
ment of religious liherty comes the
publication by MacMillan of Luigi
Luzzatti's "God in Freedom,"
translated from the Italian by
Prof. Alfonso Arbib-Costa and ed-
ited by Max J. Kohler. There is
a sketch of the life of Luigi Luz-
zatti written by Dr. Dora Asko-
with of Hunger College, New York
and also American supplementary
chapters by the late William How-
ard Taft, lion. Irving Lehman,
Mr. Kehler, and the late louisi
Marshall,

Luigi Luzzatti needed no monu-
ment. His monumental achieve-
ments can not soon he forgotten,
his influence on the welfare of the
world was much too widespread,
his fight for constructive reforms
too effective not to leave a definite
mork in the annals of history. But
it is eminently fitting that the work
of a man who did much to further
the cause of religious liberty for

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the minorities should appear on th)
150th birthday of religious freedon
in America. To the student of his
tory this somewhat bulky volurn
will prove invaluable. And to
every liberal-minded person it wil
he a source of profound interes
and information.
Luigi Luzzatti was the son o
Jewish parents and was born in
Venice in 1841. His family ram
had for 350 years been known t(
Venetian history and Hebraic lit
erature. Even as far back as th
seventeenth century. If my fact.
are accurate, there Was a Mose.
Chaim Luzzatti, Italian Jewish
poet and scholar who is credited
by some authorities with basing
started the revival of Hebrew.

Saved Country from B•nkruptcv.

At 20 young Luigi was already
contemplating the religious systems
of the world and was delving into
problems in economics. At 22 he
was lecturing on economics and
Dr. Askowith notes, was the first
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